Nintendo DS Downloads

This is the DS Downloads Page. It's a mirror of every DS flashcart firmware and software file that I can get my hands on.
Because a large majority of these cards come from Asia, the servers the files are hosted on are slow, unreadable and unreliable for the rest of the world. My server is fast and it is always available.
I also keep a complete version archive, just in case anyone needs old versions and the developers' sites don't keep them.

Please read the guides in the Tutorials and Guides category to fix common problems, before contacting me.

INFO & NOTES:
Please link to this page and not directly to files. Links may change at any time.

Looking for nin_wifi_Fullpack.rar? You can get the package from the Essential Utilities category.

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Send me a message, ask me a question.

If asking for help, please be as descriptive as possible.For instance, don't just say 'games don't work', tell me specifically what games, and what error message etc you are seeing.
Also tell me exactly what card, and loader/firmware versions you have, if applicable. Thank you.
And remember to read the guides in the Tutorials category first (especially if you're asking about R4s).

I will not answer questions about where or how to download commercial games.

M3 Sakura is a newer official loader for the M3 Real. Co-developed by the author of Moonshell, it has a new GUI with integrated media playback functions. It also dual-boots the original M3 Real Loader, so it fully replaces the old loader.

Official Site
The M3 DS Real and the G6 DS Real are the latest Slot-1 flashcards to come from the well known M3 Team.
The M3i Zero is a redesigned M3 Real that is compatible with the DSi. It features externally upgradable firmware/bootloader by use of a USB cable, so it can always be updated regardless of DSi firmware updates.

Official Site
The TopToy DS (DSTT) is a so-called 'budget' card. The DSTTi is the DSi-compatible version of the card, which shares the same loader.
Official loader updates have stopped so the only updates as of now are community save database updates (note I'm probably very out of date on these).

Note: You can find fakekiller/writer tools in the DSTT Fakes category.

Official Site
The iPlayer is a audio/video player with an onboard hardware decoder. Because of this it can play most common video formats such as .avi and .mpg without conversion to .dpg
It can also natively run homebrew, with DLDI support.

Official Site
A more recently released card with open source code.
The iSmart MM is a new card from this team. Similar to the iPlayer and DSTwo, it has an onboard CPU for tasks like native video playback.

Official Site 1, Official Site 2, Official Site 3
The iTouchDS is a 'budget' card from the M3 Team with all the standard features, plus a 'shortcut' feature that allows users to create quick shortcuts to their favourite apps.
The iTouch2 is the DSi-compatiable version, which shares the same loader.

Official Site
The Supercard Team's Slot-1 card series. Comes in SDHC and non-SDHC.
The DSONEi is the DSi compatible version of the card.
The Evolution OS is a newly released official loader for the DSONE / DSONEi.

Dynamically Linked Driver Interface, commonly known as DLDI, is a driver framework that allows NDS and GBA homebrew to easily read and write to any number of different devices, just by substituting a driver file.

Original Announcement and Source
The Wood R4 loader is a newly released loader for the original R4 (NOT any clones).
Based off the codebase of the Wood RPG loader, it has the same game compatibility as Wood RPG.

Official Site 1, Official Site 2
The R4 is the well known first-generation Slot-1 card. It's official support has ended and has been discontinued.
Many different clones of it have been released however.

Official Site
The R4 Ultra is part R4 Clone, and part AceKard RPG clone (the loader is apparently a copy of the RPG's).
The 'R4i' is a DSi-compatiable clone R4 from the same R4 Ultra devs. It shares the same loader.

Official Site
There are 'R4-v' cards for the DS and DSi, generically called R4- and R4i-SDHC.
There are at least 4 different R4i's, each with a different loader:
A red PCB that does not support DSi 1.4;
A green and yellow version that supports 1.4;
A red PCB that supports 1.4 with no sticker;
A red PCB that supports 1.4 with a '1.4' sticker;
and maybe a few others.
The 'R4ita' cards are probably from the same place. Try the loaders in that category as well.

Official Site
The Gold R4i is yet another R4i clone. Made by the same people as (and practically identical to) the Super R4i.NOTE: There is an apparently improved loader version for this card in the r4idsn.com category. Consider trying it instead.

Official Site
This R4i, the 'R4i RTS', is apparently being supported by the well known M3 Team.
There are 3 editions of this particular card, the R4i, the R4i SDHC, and the R4i RTS, the latter of which supports Real-Time Save.